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17 Cards in this Set
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Roughing it |
By: Mark Twain **Travel literature...story follows Twain's character Jack Slade..overland stage agent..on a stage coach journey westward...his audience is easterners as this story is about the easterner traveling westward... |
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
By: Dorothy Johnson ** Johnson prided herself on doing a switch...on common western plots...**the switch is an important technique for fictin writers. **MWSLV is not about how the west was won bt the change in environment rather than the environment being a character...as east overcomes the west how does this invasion of eastern ideals affect the frontier. |
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Blue Hotel |
By: Stephen Crane **setting in nebraska which..not the wild west. parody on western landscape...snowy flat boring bleak.. **inspired by his personal trips to American West.. **Crane creates intentional stark contrast between westerner / easterner**Crane's more realist style of writing leads to...his reflections on early western literature and its heavy influence due to Dime Novels...Crane points out the dangers of subscription to Dime Novels and their over romanticism of the west dime novels...crane bashes the dime novels romanticisma wild west story about the dangers of reading wild west stories...this mirrors the social shift out of dime novels and into a more mature western literature... |
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Women in the West |
** frontier women portrayed as victims passive observers/passangers.**madonna figure-silently suffering submissive but sturdy woman in bonnet baby on hand rife in other-dedicated to restoring civilization as rapidly as p-imposing her version of civ on wilderness**antithesis of madonna figure:-female bandit, backwoods belle goood hearted whore soiled dove not virtuous..drank smoke cursed **Women worked their way across the west un romantic...Opportunity and reinvention in the west |
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diary of a school teacher on the arizona frontier |
by: angeline mitchell brown **took covered wagon journey to prescott... this harbored the journals she published......audience:self.. **showed a common role played by women in the west tending the house without a man etc. |
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The Fakir |
by: Mary Austin **Progressive era writer..the need to be self sufficient, independent woman and it showed in her writing.**stories reflected the shift of womens roles in society from 19th c. to 20thc. **this contrasts with "Diary" in the differing roles of women in western settings...the fakir is less survival and more virtue |
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Homesteading in South Dakota |
By: Linda Hasselstrom depicts the harshness of homesteading. woman tends the house while the man went off to the mines...mines =$$ homestead = livlihood... also depicts the law of the west |
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Westward The Women |
Directed by: William Wellman plays with gender roles and stereotypes. reinforces some while shattering others... addresses manifest destiny as opportunity rather than a geographical crusade... |
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The Significance of The Frontier |
By: Fredrick Jackson Turner **Inspired by the census official closing of the frontier and its influence on american society. **opposes "Germ" theory bu writing this to display the influence the frontier had on everything else. **lack of justice, opportunity for the undesirable, independence, self rule, freedom, violence, racism, **poses question of what will happen after the close of the frontier if the frontier is so vital to american society... |
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Plum Plum Pickers |
By Raymond Barrio social significance....this story became popular during civil rights movment, most important chicano renaissance literature. displayed the plight of the migrant worker at the time. social protest novel exposes exploitation of migrant workers. |
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Koerner's madonna of the prarie represented women of the frontier as silently suffering...women in bonnet with baby and rifle in hand...virtuous attempts to civilize the wilderness |
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in the land of the free |
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and the soul shall dance |
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Lakota Woman |
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Smoke Signals |
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Redneck secrets |
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how to write the great american indian novel |
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